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T H K STORY T H IS T A R : The Am erl
ra a troop« arrives la Adana, « Ilk M ajor
.oppolo. the Amgot officer la charge.
► <rgeaat Borth was la charge of aecarl-
I . The M ajor « as determined to hold
tne conOdeace of the people and to re­
place their hell etolea by the N ails. De­
spite orders tziaed by General M arvin,
barring carts from the city, Joppolo re­
called the orders, to perm it food and wa­
ter to enter the city. The M ajo r found
out that the American generosltv was re­
sponsible for a troublesome blach m a r­
ket. To stop this condition he placed a
celling on all prices. M ayor Nasta was
placed In the prisoner of w ar cage. He
swore that he would get even and that
the Americans would suffer.
CHAPTER XVIII
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Sergeant Borth slapped him sharp­
ly in the face, and for a few sec­
onds he was silent.
But when he was seated in the
jeep, and the Jeep began to move.
Mayor Nasta began again. "Don’t
shoot me in the back. I will do any­
thing to be shot from the front,
where I can see the gun. I will
tell you everything I know. I can
give you names. Don’t do it from
behind.”
Borth said: “ How can I shoot you
from behind when I am in the
front seat and you are in the back
seat?”
Since it was the noon hour, scores
of people had drifted to the Doppo
Lavoro clubs along the street near
the Albergo dei Pescatori to listen
to the radio and wait for lunch.
When they saw Borth’s jeep, with a
man tied up in the back seat, they
clustered around, and called for
their friends. And when they saw
that Borth's cargo was Mayor Nas­
ta, and that after all these years the
Mayor had a gag in his mouth, the,
cheered and laughed at the man.
These noises increased Mayor
I Nasta’s terrors, and he kept twist-
! ing and trying to look behind him.
L ife in the p.w. cage was not
very pleasant for M ayor Nasta.
None of the men had blankets, and
the nights were pretty cold, so they
slept in close rows, keeping each
other warm with their bodies. But
no one would sleep next to the Fas­
cist Pig. They said he had a pecu­
lia r smell. As a m atter of fact, he
did have a peculiar smell for sev­
eral hours each morning; it came
from being a mistake.
At last M ayor Nasta found a man
who would talk with him. This was
Borth went into Jhe restaurant and
a German who spoke Ita lia n .
found M ajo r Joppolo and brought
Mayor Nasta told him that he him out.
was still Mayor of Adano. that he
M ajor Joppolo held up his hand to
had been treacherously arrested by silence the crowd. " I want to speak
the Americans, that he was trying
to do all he could to help the Ger­
mans win and that, in short, he
was a pretty important person who
ought to be helped. The Ita lia n ­
speaking German told his friends
all about M ayor Nasta, and they de­
cided they ought to help him escape.
For a couple of days M ayor Nas­
ta moved over and lived with the
Germans. They made plans for the
escape. There was nothing elabo­
rate about the plans. They just
decided to lift the M ayor up over
the wall. They asked him if he
had the courage to sit on barbed
w ire for a few minutes. He said
yes, anything to escape.
They
asked him if he had the courage to
jum p down twelve feet on the other
side. He said yes.
So in the middle of a dark, cloud­
ed night, the Germans made a pyra­
mid of their bodies and let Mayor
Nasta climb up it to the top of the
wall. He sat on the barbed wire on
top of the wall, quiet as a cat, until
he was sure that the sentry outside
had marched to the other end of his
beat. Then he turned facing the
wall, let himself down as fa r as he
could, and let go. He hurt one knee
a little; it hit the wall as he landed
on the ground. But he was able
to get up and run off silently.
The Top Sergeant at the p.w.
cage called up Sergeant Borth at
eighty-thirty the next morning and
told him that Nasta had escaped.
Sergeant Borth borrowed Corporal
He let himself down as far as he
Chuck Schultz and a jeep from the
M .P .’s and went hunting. By this could and let go.
tim e Sergeant Borth had so many
voluntary informers and informers-
on-informers that the job of tracing
M ayor Nasta was not too hard.
He soon found out that Mayor
Nast: had been sheltered for a few
hours in a house on Via Favem i.
He had then left town by the Via
Roma.
He had stopped in at a
fa rm e r’s house near the Casa Zam-
bano to change into peasant dress.
This was ore of the easiest things to
check, because the peasant turned
up wearing Mayor Nasta's loud pow­
der blue suit, which was dusty from
several nights on the ground.
M ayor Nasta had then been seen
at several points along the Vicina-
m are road. One farm er had given
him a lift in his cart. Mayor Nasta
had evidently had enough of the
hills, and was trying now to get to
Vicinam are. where friends would be
able to hide him.
Sergeant Borth picked him up
three miles short of Vicinam are, at
about ten-thirty.
Jeeps had been passing Mayor
Nasta all morning, so that he was
not particularly alarmed when Ser­
geant Borth's jeep drove up along­
side him. and even when it stopped,
he waved crudely and shouted:
"Good day, good day." in what he
thought was a thick peasant ac­
cent.
Sergeant Borth mimicked the ac­
cent: "Good day, good day, fa rm ­
e r.”
M ayor Nasta, who still did not
recognize Borth, shouted again:
"Good day.”
Borth shouted: “ Good day
You
are the first farm er I have ever
seen with pince-nez glasses on.”
Then M ayor Nasta knew Borth.
M ayo r Nasta's spirit, which had
been strained by the arrest and by
the days in the cage and by the es­
cape, suddenly broke. He turned
and ran out across the fields, squeal­
ing crazily, just like a soldier who
had broken under shellfire.
Sergeant Borth got out of the jeep
and went out onto the fields. He
did not hurry, because Mayor Nasta
was running in circles, wishing to
run away from himself more than
anything else.
By the tim e Ser­
geant Borth caught him, he was ex­
hausted and lim p, and his eyes were
m ilk y with fear.
As Borth half walked, half car­
ried him to the jeep. M ayor Nasta
jabbered and mouthed his fear. “ If
you are going to shoot me, tell me
first. Don’t shoot me in the back.
T e ll m e if you are going to kill me.
I want to know, I want to know .
to Nasta,” he said to Borth. "Can
he hear me with that thing on his
face?”
"Y e a h ,” Borth said; “you’ve got
the rare pleasure of being able to
speak to Nasta and he can't talk
back."
M ajo r Joppolo said: "Nasta, you
are a disgrace to your people. There
is goodness in your people, but not
in you, not a bit. The world has
had enough of your kind of selfish­
ness."
It was one of M ajo r Joppolo’ s
greatest attributes in his job that
he could speak pompous sentences
with a sincerity and passion so real
that his Italian listeners were al­
ways moved by what he said. Now
all the listeners except Nasta were
moved by his words to shout: "K ill
him! K ill him! K ill h im !”
Here was one tim e when M ajor
Joppolo's sincerity and passion
bounced back on him, because the
people’s shouts frightened Mayor
Nasta so badly that he fainted, and
M a jo r Joppolo was the first to see
the ridiculousness of trying to spell­
bind an unconscious man.
There was nothing left to say ex­
cept one sentence to Borth: "W e'll
have to send him to A frica."
And to the music of Adano’s de­
lighted cheers. Borth and his limp
companion drove down the street.
There was no better index to the
state of mind of Adano than the ac­
tivities of the painter Lojacono. If
one had made a graph of the spirits
of the town and then put beside it a
graph of the number of commissions
Lojacono received, the two would
have exactly corresponded. When­
ever the town was optimistic, Loja­
cono worked. When the town was
blue. -Lojacono was idle.
Lojacono could paint anything. He
could paint a house or he could paint
a saint. He was the one who paint­
ed panels in the churches. He was
the one who painted the fat and holy
people on the fat Basile's two­
wheeled cart.
The white-haired Lojacono suf­
fered when he painted. First he suf­
fered the pangs of creation, then he
suffered when the people of Adano
criticized his work. His work was
beautiful and everyone in the town
loved it, but for some reason they
always criticized it first.
M ajor Joppolo had not been in
Adano very long before Lojacono
was busy. His first efforts were a
little crude, because the town had
been depressed, and his right hand
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idle, for so very long But soon he
warmed to the town's happiness,
he did things he had never been able
to do in his life, which had not been
short.
The same morning that the crowd
stood around Borth's Jeep in front
of the Albergo dei Pescatori. anoth­
er, smaller crowd stood on the Moto
Ponente in the harbor and watched
Lojacono work.
He was painting
new names and little figures on the
bow surfaces of the fishing boats,
and the crowd consisted of fisher­
men and their fam ilies.
Except for Lojacono's work, the
boats were all ready to go. Their
seams were calked, and they were
tight as wine-bottles. The barnacles
and the whiskers were off, and the
bottoms had been given a little lead
paint. The rigging was sm art, for
M ajor Joppolo had persuaded the
Navy to give the fishermen some
bright cable and some unsoaked
hemp rope.
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The fishermen were im patient to
have Lojacono finish.
Lojacono stopped working and
looked at the fishermen standing
there. He pointed at his work and
said angrily: "Have you ever seen
a porpoise less messy than that
one?"
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Agnello said: "The porpoise is not
bad. but he will die of loneliness
unless you hurry and give him some
company. Porpoises like company,
you know that. Lojacono. Have you
ever seen a porpoise play alone?”
"H e w ill have company,” Loja­
cono said im patiently. "The Mister
M ajo r is going to be riding on his
back.
If you would be silent, I
could get on with my work."
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Merendino said: "W ork then, old
man. do not be so slow.”
The old man went back to his
work. Tomasino, sitting with his
head in his hands on the afterdeck
of his boat, which was moored next
to Agnello’s, said gloomily: " I can­
not see the point of all this painting.
It is frivolous. M y boat has been
named Tina since the g irl was born.
It w ill rem ain Tina. The leaves and
the fruit which dangle from the
name are good enough for me, even
if they are not new."
Agnello shouted to Tomasino:
"What is the m atter with you, sour
one, this morning? Cheer up, we are
going fishing again."
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" In the next century," said Tom a­
sino glumly, "a fte r a ll this painting
is finished.”
Lojacono stuck his head up over
the side of Agnello's boat and shout­
ed: "Be quiet, Tomasino, you know
that the only reason you are so im ­
patient is that you like what I did
twenty years ago and you have no
desire for anything new.”
Tomasino said: " If I have to wait
another day for the slow painter I
w ill blot out the name Tina and the
leaves and fru it with some lead
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Lojacono started painting the M is­
R.Y PAPER WHERE
ter M ajor, and the ln tle crowd came
E arly morning
in closer to see the details. He re­
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“ His leg is too short. The leg of
the M ister M ajor is longer,” Agnel­
lo said.
“ I was about to say that the leg is
too long,” Merendino said.
“ In other words,” Lojacono said,
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“ the leg is precisely right.”
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Agnello’s helpers.
"H e is bending forward because
of the speed of the porpoise," L oja­
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"The color of his skin is too
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white,” said the wife of Agnello.
"His skin is more Italian-colored.”
“ You are dull,” Lojacono said,
“ you do not see the symbolism of
the white skin.”
Do you suffer
This is what the criticism was a l­
ways like. And this shows the pur­
from MONTHLY
pose of the criticism : it was not so
much that the people did not like!
what Lojacono was doing, as they
wanted to know exactly what was in
with I»» weak, «red Feeliagt ?
his mind. In future, showing off his
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“ You can see how fast the por­
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M ajor is leaning forward. And. do
against such distress. Also a grand
you see how white his skin is? That
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is because of the symbolism in the
Mister M a jo r’s skin.”
In due course Lojacono finished
his work, and everyone pronounced WNU—13
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it quite good, although, one said, It
would be hard for a porpoise to jump
that high out of the water with a
man on his back, and, another said,
should not the name of the boat,
which was now Americano, be a lit­
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tle lower? Lojacono attributed the
o f H a rm fu l Body Waste
form er highness to good spirits and
Your kidneys are constantly Altering
the latter highness to the way the
waste matter from the blood stream. Bui
name American had been raised in
kidneys sometimes lag is their work— do
not set as Nature intended— (ail to re­
everyone’s esteem by the Mister M a ­
move Impuritiee that, if retained, may
jo r; and everyone went away satis­
poison ths system end upeet tbe whole
body machinery.
fied.
Symptoms may be nagging backache,
The next morning the boats went
peraiatent headache, attack* of dizziness,
getting
up nights, swelling, puffiness
out. M ajor Joppolo went down to
under the eyee— a feeling of nervoue
the harbor to see them off, and the
euzlety and loee of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis­
people in town were all excited at
order ere sometimes burning, scanty of
the prospect of eating fish.
too frequent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt
The catch that day was excellent.
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